# 6.1.2. Attachments

The Bugzilla API for creating, changing, and getting the details of attachments.

## 6.1.2.1. Get Attachment

This allows you to get data about attachments, given a list of bugs and/or attachment IDs. Private attachments will only be returned if you are in the appropriate group or if you are the submitter of the attachment.

Request

To get all current attachments for a bug:

    GET /rest/bug/(bug_id)/attachment

To get a specific attachment based on attachment ID:

    GET /rest/bug/attachment/(attachment_id)

One of the below must be specified.

name | type | description
--- | --- | ---
bug_id | int | Integer bug ID.
attachment_id | int | Integer attachment ID.

Response

    {
       "bugs" : {
          "1345" : [
             { (attachment) },
             { (attachment) }
          ],
          "9874" : [
             { (attachment) },
             { (attachment) }
          ],
       },
       "attachments" : {
          "234" : { (attachment) },
          "123" : { (attachment) },
       }
    }

An object containing two elements: `bugs` and `attachments`.

The attachments for the bug that you specified in the `bug_id` argument in input are returned in `bugs` on output. `bugs` is a object that has integer bug IDs for keys and the values are arrays of objects as attachments. (Fields for attachments are described below.)

For the attachment that you specified directly in `attachment_id`, they are returned in `attachments` on output. This is a object where the attachment ids point directly to objects describing the individual attachment.

The fields for each attachment (where it says `(attachment)` in the sample response above) are:

name | type | description
--- | --- | ---
data | base64 | The raw data of the attachment, encoded as Base64.
size | int | The length (in bytes) of the attachment.
creation_time | datetime | The time the attachment was created.
last_change_time | datetime | The last time the attachment was modified.
id | int | The numeric ID of the attachment.
bug_id | int | The numeric ID of the bug that the attachment is attached to.
file_name | string | The file name of the attachment.
summary | string | A short string describing the attachment.
content_type | string | The MIME type of the attachment.
is_private | boolean | `true` if the attachment is private (only visible to a certain group called the “insidergroup”, `false` otherwise.
is_obsolete | boolean | `true` if the attachment is obsolete, `false` otherwise.
is_patch | boolean | `true` if the attachment is a patch, `false` otherwise.
creator | string | The login name of the user that created the attachment.
flags | array | Array of objects, each containing the information about the flag currently set for each attachment. Each flag object contains items descibed in the Flag object below.

Flag object:

name | type | description
--- | --- | ---
id | int | The ID of the flag.
name | string | The name of the flag.
type_id | int | The type ID of the flag.
creation_date | datetime | The timestamp when this flag was originally created.
modification_date | datetime | The timestamp when the flag was last modified.
status | string | The current status of the flag such as ?, +, or -.
setter | string | The login name of the user who created or last modified the flag.
requestee | string | The login name of the user this flag has been requested to be granted or denied. Note, this field is only returned if a requestee is set.

## 6.1.2.2. Create Attachment

This allows you to add an attachment to a bug in Bugzilla.

Request

To create attachment on a current bug:

    POST /rest/bug/(bug_id)/attachment

    {
      "ids" : [ 35 ],
      "is_patch" : true,
      "comment" : "This is a new attachment comment",
      "summary" : "Test Attachment",
      "content_type" : "text/plain",
      "data" : "(Some base64 encoded content)",
      "file_name" : "test_attachment.patch",
      "obsoletes" : [],
      "is_private" : false,
      "flags" : [
        {
          "name" : "review",
          "status" : "?",
          "requestee" : "user@bugzilla.org",
          "new" : true
        }
      ]
    }

The params to include in the POST body, as well as the returned data format, are the same as below. The `bug_id` param will be overridden as it it pulled from the URL path.

name | type | description
--- | --- | ---
ids | array | The IDs or aliases of bugs that you want to add this attachment to. The same attachment and comment will be added to all these bugs.
data | base64 | The content of the attachment. You must encode it in base64 using an appropriate client library such as `MIME::Base64` for Perl.
file_name | string | The “file name” that will be displayed in the UI for this attachment and also downloaded copies will be given.
summary | string | A short string describing the attachment.
content_type | string | The MIME type of the attachment, like `text/plain` or `image/png`.
comment | string | A comment to add along with this attachment.
is_patch | boolean | `true` if Bugzilla should treat this attachment as a patch. If you specify this, you do not need to specify a `content_type`. The `content_type` of the attachment will be forced to `text/plain`. Defaults to `false` if not specified.
is_private | boolean | `true` if the attachment should be private (restricted to the “insidergroup”), `false` if the attachment should be public. Defaults to `false` if not specified.
flags | array | Flags objects to add to the attachment. The object format is described in the Flag object below.

Flag object:

To create a flag, at least the `status` and the `type_id` or `name` must be provided. An optional requestee can be passed if the flag type is requestable to a specific user.

name | type | description
--- | --- | ---
name | string | The name of the flag type.
type_id | int | The internal flag type ID.
status | string | The flags new status (i.e. “?”, “+”, “-” or “X” to clear a flag).
requestee | string | The login of the requestee if the flag type is requestable to a specific user.

Response

    {
      "ids" : [
        "2797"
      ]
    }

name | type | description
--- | --- | ---
ids | array | Attachment IDs created.

## 6.1.2.3. Update Attachment

This allows you to update attachment metadata in Bugzilla.

Request

To update attachment metadata on a current attachment:

    PUT /rest/bug/attachment/(attachment_id)

    {
      "ids" : [ 2796 ],
      "summary" : "Test XML file",
      "comment" : "Changed this from a patch to a XML file",
      "content_type" : "text/xml",
      "is_patch" : 0
    }

name | type | description
--- | --- | ---
attachment_id | int | Integer attachment ID.
ids | array | The IDs of the attachments you want to update.

name | type | description
--- | --- | ---
file_name | string | The “file name” that will be displayed in the UI for this attachment.
summary | string | A short string describing the attachment.
comment | string | An optional comment to add to the attachment’s bug.
content_type | string | The MIME type of the attachment, like `text/plain` or `image/png`.
is_patch | boolean | `true` if Bugzilla should treat this attachment as a patch. If you specify this, you do not need to specify a `content_type`. The `content_type` of the attachment will be forced to `text/plain`.
is_private | boolean | `true` if the attachment should be private (restricted to the “insidergroup”), `false` if the attachment should be public.
is_obsolete | boolean | `true` if the attachment is obsolete, `false` otherwise.
flags | array | An array of Flag objects with changes to the flags. The object format is described in the Flag object below.

Flag object:

The following values can be specified. At least the `status` and one of `type_id`, `id`, or `name` must be specified. If a type_id or name matches a single currently set flag, the flag will be updated unless `new` is specified.

name | type | description
--- | --- | ---
name | string | The name of the flag that will be created or updated.
type_id | int | The internal flag type ID that will be created or updated. You will need to specify the `type_id` if more than one flag type of the same name exists.
status | string | The flags new status (i.e. “?”, “+”, “-” or “X” to clear a flag).
requestee | string | The login of the requestee if the flag type is requestable to a specific user.
id | int | Use ID to specify the flag to be updated. You will need to specify the `id` if more than one flag is set of the same name.
new | boolean | Set to true if you specifically want a new flag to be created.

Response

    {
      "attachments" : [
        {
          "changes" : {
            "content_type" : {
              "added" : "text/xml",
              "removed" : "text/plain"
            },
            "is_patch" : {
              "added" : "0",
              "removed" : "1"
            },
            "summary" : {
              "added" : "Test XML file",
              "removed" : "test patch"
            }
          },
          "id" : 2796,
          "last_change_time" : "2014-09-29T14:41:53Z"
        }
      ]
    }

`attachments` (array) Change objects with the following items:

name | type | description
--- | --- | ---
id | int | The ID of the attachment that was updated.
last_change_time | datetime | The exact time that this update was done at, for this attachment. If no update was done (that is, no fields had their values changed and no comment was added) then this will instead be the last time the attachment was updated.
changes | object | The changes that were actually done on this attachment. The keys are the names of the fields that were changed, and the values are an object with two items: added: (string) The values that were added to this field. Possibly a comma-and-space-separated list if multiple values were added. removed: (string) The values that were removed from this field.

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